Police in Alabama and Georgia searched Monday for two murder suspects who fled from an overcrowded jail after overpowering guards, wounding one with a makeshift knife, authorities said. Searchers used tracking dogs in the hunt for Johnny Earl Jones, 17, who was charged with killing a child he was baby-sitting for, and Lamar Benton, 19, charged in the rape-slaying of a 39-year-old woman. They escaped early Saturday from Russell County Jail in Phenix City. A third murder suspect got out with them but was quickly recaptured by officers using tracking dogs and helicopters. The three men attacked two guards, then went to the front of the jail, where they knocked down another officer, took her keys and escaped, Russell County Sheriff Tommy Boswell said. ... http://www.cbsnews.com

A lawyer was taken hostage in his office near City Hall on Monday, and police cordoned off part of downtown as they tried to negotiate for the man's release. Police were negotiating with possibly two suspects, said Trooper Larry Schnall, a spokesman for the Georgia State Patrol, which was sending a SWAT team to the scene. He could not confirm whether the suspects were armed. A woman who answered the phone Monday at the office where the lawyer works said the office was closed and hung up. If the Hostage takers want money for the return of this lawyer they would have better luck getting money for keeping or disposing of it, preferably somewhere it cant do any damage to the environment ...http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-01-16-georgia-hostage_x.htm?csp=34

An airplane mechanic was killed Monday morning after he was sucked into a jet's engine while passengers were boarding from the tarmac, officials said. "A mechanic walked in front of the engine and was pulled into the engine," National Transportation Safety Board spokeswoman Lauren Peduzzi said.She said she didn't know if any passengers saw the accident as they boarded Continental Airlines flight 1515 to Houston. A Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the worker was sucked into the right engine of the 737-500.The mechanic's identity wasn't released, but Continental identified the victim as an employee of one of Continental's suppliers. Continental released few other details about what it called a "ground incident" at El Paso International Airport....http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181825,00.html

Nicki Henderson has had plenty of reasons to be angry since Hurricane Katrina destroyed her Biloxi home, but it was a simple news item about dislocated dolphins that really made her blood boil. Henderson lost her temper when she logged on to her computer and spotted this headline: "New Orleans Dolphins Find New Home." She knew the dolphins actually came from a hurricane-ravaged marine park in Gulfport, not New Orleans. The headline writer's error reinforced her belief shared by many on Mississippi's Gulf Coast that New Orleans has gotten a disproportionate share of the news coverage and the nation's attention in the aftermath of the storm, now more than four months gone....http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1511186&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312

Police brandishing electric batons clashed with protesting villagers in southern China over the weekend, and several people were injured, villagers and Hong Kong media reported. State media blamed villagers for inciting the violence in Guangdong province. There were unconfirmed reports that a teenage girl died in the clash and that the village of Panlong was sealed off.Telephone calls late Monday to the Sanjiao township and Zhongshan city, which both oversee Panlong, were not answered. The lack of information is typical in a country where the communist central government tightly controls information.However, in a rare and swift acknowledgment of unrest in the countryside, the official Xinhua News Agency late Sunday cited a local official as saying police had not used force to disperse villagers. Would a Government lie to the people? ...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,181824,00.html

Avian influenza killed a 12-year-old girl in Turkey, the government said today. Israel said tests on what would have been its first human case of bird flu were negative. The girl died yesterday and her brother was in a critical condition, Turkey's Health Ministry said. There have been 20 confirmed human cases of bird flu in Turkey, four of which resulted in death, a spokesman for the Ankara-based Ministry said in a telephone interview today. The United Nations last week said the flu may become endemic in birds in Turkey and pose a risk to neighboring countries. The spread of the disease increases the risk that the virus will mutate into a form that people can pass to one another, causing a deadly pandemic. A sick man who lives in a village east of Jerusalem was tested for bird flu after being admitted to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital last night. ...http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=am7PSQdo5OyA&refer=home